Adjustable hinge.



c. B. TRIMMEE. ADJUSTABLE HINGE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 29,1909.

94:7, 1 68. Patented Jan. 18,1910.

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CHARLES BANGHART TRIMMER, 0F ROSELLE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIG-NOB OF ONE-HALFTO ALPHONSE BOUCI'IET, OF BOSELLE, NEW JERSEY.

AD USTABLE HINGE.

Specif cation hf'I-etters Patent.

Patented Jan. 18,1910.

Application filed. April 29, 1909. Serial No. 492,873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES BANGHART TRIMMER, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, residing at Roselle, in the county of Union, State ofNew Jersey, United States of America, have invented a new and usefulAdjustable Hinge; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and eXact description of the same. The present improvementsrelate to adjustable hinges, and especially to a form of hinge whichpermits a door to be raised and lowered without removing the door fromthe frame, allowing this work to be done by unskilled persons, andrendering repairs to the door, door-frame or the sill unnecessary; Theobjects aimed at are to produce a hinge of the class referred to whichshall be simple, strong, economical, easily assembled, taken apart andoperated. It has been the constant experience that, when a door has beenhung upon the doorframe for some little time, the door is found to bindagainst the top or the bottomor side of the frame, or against the sill.Prior to my invention, it has been the custom to have a carpenter, orother workman, plane the door, or the frame or the sill, increasin thecost of the work, and it has been foun afterward that the door again andagain requires to be repaired. It has also been found that the planingof the door has defeated the very object soughtto have a door fit itsframe quite snugly without any bindingas the building sometimes furthersettles, and then it has been found that there is a space, undesirablefor many reasons, underneath the door or at one of its sides.

The hinge which I have designed is formed to permit any person toimmediately make changes in the hanging of the door,

without the use of any tools, and without removing the door from thehinge or from the frame.

Each door may have as many of the new hinges as desired, and each may beadjustable. Where there are two or moreof the hinges, the adjustment maybe efiected by operating any or all of them, and whentwo are operatedthey may be moved either in the same or opposite directions. Thus onehinge may be operated to lowerthe door, while a hinge, above or belowthat first named, may be operated to raise the door.

It will be obvious-that only a small amount of movement is necessary ata hinge, as that amount "of movement will be multiplied by the width ofthe door. As a result, the outer edge of the door, at which the bindingusually occurs, can be swung a great distance (comparatively speaking)with the form of hinge which I have invented.

In the form of my invention embodied in the illustrated structures, Ihave provided a slidable part, for effecting the adjustment, and anoifset wherein said part is movable. Said offset may be secured eitherto a door or to a door frame. The latter use is shown in the drawings.

I11 the accompanying drawings I have shown two forms of hinges embodyingmy improvements.

Figure l is a view of a part of a doorframe and door hung thereon,showing, in

edge view, a hinge according to this invention; Fig. 2 is a crosssection, on the dotted line of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a similar section of amodified form of hinge, and Fig. 4 is a cross section of a slightlychanged form of the modified hinge.

Referring to Fig. 1, A represents a portion of a door-frame and Brepresents a portion of a door. C represents a hinge-leaf of any unusualconstruction, secured to the door, and having hinge knuckles .D D, Fig.1, whereby the hinge pivotally engages with a pintle E as usual. Thedoor-frame or j amb does not carry, in this form of the invention, theusual second hinge-leaf, but carries a supplementary leaf X (held inplace by screws) and this supplementary leaf is formed to sustain aslide which is the "element for advancing and retracting the hinge andthe door., Said slide G carries a knuckle F and the latter also engagesthe pintle E in the same manner as said-pin is usually engaged by ahinge leaf intended to be fastened to a door frame. The slide G ismovably supported in an ofl'set II projecting at a right anglefrom thesupplementary leaf, and adapted to rest against the face of the doorjamb, the connection between the slide and the recess in the offsetbeing a dovetailed connection so that the slide will be stronglysupported, while freely slidable,

in any of its positions. The slide is provided with an internalscrewthread J and said thread is useful to cause the slide to engagewith a screw K having a head l provided with openings 0 to be engaged bya building nail or an awl. The screw lies within a slot L in the offset,and the head of such screw lies in an enlargement M of that slot andagainst the end N of the ofiset.

An examination of Fig. 2 will show that, no matter what the position ofthe slide, the door will always swing upon the pintle E in the usualmanner. If the outer edge of the door binds when the door is closed,itwill be obvious that itwill be necessary only to turn the screw L (byhaving the end of a building-nail thrust into one of the o3enings 0) soas to draw the slide G a shght distance farther into the offset; or, onthe contrary, if the outer edge of the door does not fit closely enoughthe door-frame, then the desired change of position may be attained byslightly turning the screw, in a direction opposite to that previouslynoted, so as to cause the slide to move outwardly in the ofiset.

The form of the invention shown in Figs. 3 and 4, differs from thatalready described in having the slide carry an intermediate leaf which,in use, is connected with the leaf screwed to the door-frame, so as toassure an exceedingly strong construction.

In each of said figures, Q indicates the intermediate leaf mentioned,formed in one with the slide, and secured along its front edge only withthe front edge of the leaf attached to the door frame. Referring to Fig.3, it will be seen that the screw Y, of which there may be any desirednumber, is used not only to hold the leaves Q, and X together but tosecure the hinge to the doorframe. The construction of Fig. 4-, howeverdiffers from that of F ig. 3 in having the leaves Q, and X securedtogether at all times, whether secured to the door or not, by rivets R,and by providing holes S in the intermediate leaf to allow the screws Yto pass into the door-frame. 7

What I claim is:

1. A hinge provided with a leaf adapted to be secured to the edge of thedoor jainb and having an offset from its central portion extending at aright angle and adapted to rest against the face of a door jamb, saidoffset being provided with a recess extending also through the edge ofthe leaf, a second leaf adapted to be secured to the edge of a door andprovided with a vertical knuckle near each end, a long vertical knucklefitting between the two knuckles of the door leaf, and having anextension proj ecting at a right angle into the recess of the extensionof the jamb leaf, a pintle fitting in. the three knuckles, and means foradj nsting the extension of the long vertical knuckle within the recessof the jamb leaf,

and carrying with it in such adjustment the pintle and the door leaf.

2. A hinge provided with a leaf adapted to be secured to the edge of thedoor jalnb and having an ofiset from its central portion extending at aright angle and adapted to rest against the face of a door jamb, saidoffset being provided with a recess extending also through the edge ofthe leaf, a. second leaf adapted to be secured to the edge of a door andprovided with a. vertical knuckle near each end, a long vertical knucklefitting between the two knuckles of the door leaf and having anextension projecting at a right angle into the recess of the extensionof the jainb leaf, a screw swiveled in said recess and threading intothe knuckle extension and a pintle fitting in the three knuckles.

3. A hinge provided with a leaf adapted to be secured to the edge of thedoor jainb and having an offset from its central portion extending at aright angle and adapted to rest against the face of a door janib, saidoffset being provided with a recess extending also through the edge ofthe leaf. a second leaf adapted to be secured to the edge of a door andprovided with a vertical knuckle near each end, a long vertical knucklefitting between the two knuckles of the door leaf having an extensionprojecting at a right angle into the recess of the extension of thejanib leaf and a leaf at right angles to the extension adapted to besecured to the door jamb, a screw swiveled in said recess and threadinginto the knuckle extension, and a pintle fitting in the three knuckles.

4. A hinge provided with a leaf adapted to be secured to the edge of thedoor janih and having an offset from its central portion extending at aright angle and adapted to rest against the face of a door jainb, saidOffset being provided with a recess extending also through the edge ofthe leaf, a second leaf adapted to be secured to the edge of a door andprovided with a vertical knuckle near each end, a long vertical knucklefitting between the two knuckles of the door leaf having an extensionprojecting at a right angle into the recess of the e.\'tcn sion of thejalnb leaf and a l af at right angles to the extension secured to thedoor janib leaf, a screw swiveled in said recess and threading into theknuckle extension. and a pintle fitting in the three knuckles.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

Roselle, New Jersey, April 21st, 1905).

CHARLES BANGIIART TRIMMER.

Vitnesses GEORGE V. KLEINHAUs, MICHAEL J. BRADLEY.

